Tag: Triathlon

  • Triathletes Cheat Sheet Kilometers to Miles

    Here is a cheat sheet conversion table for converting kilometres to miles: 1 Mile = 1.6093 Kilometers – 1 Km = 0.6214 Miles You can also check out my Treadmill cheat sheet – speed conversions, pace times and target distances table You can also check out my Triathletes Cheat Sheet Miles to Kilometers

  • Tips on how to prepare for your first Triathlon and thereafter

    Tips on how to prepare for your first Triathlon and thereafter

    Getting Started Buy a Speedsuit (or wetsuit) that fits. Test it…even in a pool.  You’ll want a suit that’s got a lot of range of motion in the shoulders – it will cut minutes off your race time. I recommend the fastest one in the market – the Xterra Velocity! Buy new goggles (same model…

  • Stadium Triathlon

    The other days I was watching the Brazilian Grand Prix – Formula One that was won by Sebastian Vettel. It hit me, why do we not have stadium triathlons, we could use all the car race tracks around the world to do our races, all they need to do is to add a swimming pool…

  • Why dieting will not work alone to loosen body fat

    It’s all over the media, with ads promising us to lose weight, lose fat or how to get a six-pack. Every turn we take, we find someone that is trying to sell us something. Their words are appealing. They try to lure you into their false promises. It’s no wonder that a lot of people…

  • Triathlon Distances

    This year I did my first triathlon, it was classified as a triathlon (1 km swim, 32km bike ride, 8km run), since then I have competed in 3 more triathlons and the length have varied slightly. Triathlon races vary in distances:

  • Result from the Toronto Island Triathlon

    Finished 4th in my age group (50-54)  at the Toronto Island Triathlon – went under two hours for the second time, 1:58:35 was my end time, 12 seconds faster than my time from the Welland Triathlon. But you can not compare the courses they are all different, for next year I will work on improving…

  • Welland Triathlon 2010

    Just finished the Welland Triathlon, I placed 127 out of 233 competitors, among the men I was 127 out of 142, so I have some work to do moving up the ladder.

  • Woodstock Triathlon 2010

    Just got back from the Woodstock Triathlon 1 Km swim, 32 Km Bike Ride and 8 Km Run – I complete in 2 hours 28 minutes, not bad as it was my first ever.